Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to 70 final edition vol 75 no. 260 Price Loc with comics tuesday july 30, 1968 Sun . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 55 and 65 irate res Are near rebellion . Anglicans fear setback to Church Union cause London special the guardian Pope Paul s encyclical Banning All birth control brought clergy and Lay members of the roman Catholic Church in Britain to the Brink of open rebellion. Members of both roman Catholic and anglican Hierarchy said that the Pope s action would be a severe setback to the cause of cume Nicis because the anglican Church could never accept such a doctrine As part of its Faith. In England the intellectual outcry against the encyclical was As great As in the Western european countries particularly France where Catholic opposition to the Church teaching on birth control has been growing. The warmest Welcome for the Pope s announcement came from the archbishop of Dublin most Rev. John c. Mcquaid who said he was grateful for it and he thought it would find in the minds and hearts of the priests and faithful people trusted to his pastoral care response of an immediate Newal of their loyalty to but clearly doctors in Britain who have been prescribing contraceptives whenever they thought it necessary will go on doing so. A Survey held by the Catholic doctors organization about three years ago showed that in practice most doctors did not follow Church teaching when it came to prescribing for patients. Or. John Ryan a London gynaecologist who signed a petition urging Radical Altera please see Europe s Page 5 in the re the Lakehead mediator named Ottawa minis Ter Mackasey has announced the appointment of a Media Tor in the 11-Day-old strike of some Grain handlers at the Lakehead. The mediator is d. S. Tysoe of Vancouver the department s senior conciliation officer for Western Canada. The dispute has blocked ship ment of Grain to the Lakehead from Manitoba and most of Saskatchewan. The employees Are members of Lodge 650 of the brotherhood of railway airlines and steam ship clerks freight handlers express and station employees. Please see Lakehead Page 9 Inch of rain More due almost an Inch of rain fell on greater Winnipeg overnight and More is expected before the skies Clear tomorrow morning. According to a spokesman for the Dominion Public weather office in Winnipeg .95 inches of rain had fallen by 7 . Today. After a Brief respite this afternoon the rain was expected to begin again this evening and continue until night. At the height of the Winnipeg storm around . The rain was whipped by winds which gusted to 30 m.p.h., cutting visibility drastically in some areas. An unofficial report from a town in the Stonewall District that four inches of ram had fallen there in a three hour period was termed highly doubtful by the weather office spokesman. Stonewall had officially Inch of rain overnight. In greater Winnipeg Tomor Row it s expected to be sunny with afternoon Cloudy periods. But it la be Cool the weather office said. The overnight Low is expected to be 55 and the High tomorrow Only 65. The Normal High for the last Day of july is 81.1 and the Normal Low 56.7. Please see Inch Page 5 premiers9 Agenda heavy by Barry came medicare external affairs indians and tax Reform top the list of the 16 items the premiers of seven Canadian provinces will discuss in Northern Saskatchewan this week at the ninth annual premiers con Ference. The three Day conference opens thursday in the resort town of Waske Siu 50 Miles North of Prince Albert in Prince Albert National Park. Three of the 10 premiers will be absent w. A. C. Bennett of British Columbia who has missed the last three conferences Daniel Johnson of Quebec who is recovering from a heart attack and Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland who Boycotts the conference every year. But Quebec will be represented by provincial Justice mini Ster Jean Jacques Bertrand. A Federal government Obser ver Wal also be at the talks which Are called informal ones and which according to the premiers Are most useful when they Are held Over dinner or drinks or Iii fishing boats. All discussions Are in private and the premiers normally take Steps to ensure that no impression is created of a joint provincial attack on Federal authorities. The conference never at tempts to establish a common front on National issues Al though As in the Case of medical care insurance last year it is often the Case that some form of ganging up on Ottawa does occur. Please see premiers Page 20 prime rates reduced Toronto up All five of the major Canadian chartered Banks reduced their prime in Terest rates monday in response to the weekend drop in the Bank of Canada s Bank rate to per cent from seven. The new prime rates for the five will be seven per cent Down from it. They Are the Royal Bank of Canada Toronto Dominion Bank Bank of Montreal Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Other Banks said they Are studying the situation. Please see prime Page 5 features today East Europe faces crisis new format in football 24 today s Index classified .26 to 37 comics 17, 18 deaths 9 finance. .13, 14 movies. 16 sports 22 to 25, 37, 38 television 15 women 19 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press russians set terms curb press czechs told police maintain tightest Security around site of communist Summit talks Cierna on the Tisa Czechoslovakia Reuters tons vital talks Between the russian and czechoslovak presidium continued today in this exo tic Border Village Prague radio announced. The scene was outwardly . Group scene was peaceful. But Blue uniformed Security police ringed the railway Yards in the town just a few Miles from the russian Border. The Only official news of the meeting came from ctr the czech news Agency and Prague radio. Neither indicated How Long the discussions would continue. The two sides met for 12 hours monday in a yellow stucco railway men s clubhouse. A report from Moscow by the yugoslav news Agency Tah Jug said the soviet delegation headed by party chief be o n i d Brezhnev Premier Alexei Kosy Gin and president Nikolai pod Orny brought a minimal pro Gram that included the curbing of the new Freedom of the czechoslovak press and the Ous Ter of anti socialist elements from positions of influence. Meanwhile russian troops were on the move through East Ern Europe As czechoslovak leaders defended their new look democratic socialism in talks with sceptical russian leaders. H o w e v eve in Prague and throughout the country there was a mood of optimism As the talks went into their second Day generally taken As a Good sign. Most czechoslovak refused to believe the whom hey look As natural would occupy the country by Force if the talks go badly. Please be curb Page 5 Prague tension mounts Prague special tons tension mounted in the czech capital monday night As first reports of the top level soviet czech talks filtered in from Cierna Nad Tisou on the russian Frontier. Nervousness increased throughout the Day when it was earned the soviet delegation intended to try to spin the conference out to gain time together with further reports of ostentatious troop movements by soviet army units still in the country. Columns still in Morav a in Central Czechoslovakia were reported moving slowly eastwards just South of the mining Centre of Ostrava. Please see Prague Page 5 Gold mine offer for assets plus investment an Anonymous Vancouver group has expressed interest in putting Bissett s san Antonio mines Ltd. Back into operation it was Learned monday. The Vancouver offer believed one of several in the offing was made at a creditors meeting monday in the Law courts building Here by Vancouver chartered accountant r. W. C. Hopkins. Although or. Hopkins would not reveal names he said the interested party is thinking of buying the assets of the mine put into receivership july 5, for and putting in another to get the mine on its feet again. If this happens the town that Gold made now tottering on the Brink of financial extinction because of the mine s closing would have a Chance to live. Bissett about 100 Miles North East of Winnipeg relies on the nearby mine As its main Industry. The mine was put in receivership on application by Manitoba Hydro. If the Vancouver offer is accepted the preferred and secured creditors would be paid off leaving for payment to unsecured creditors. The estimated payment to unsecured please see . Group Page 20 Mau talks go on no settlement in dispute sighted yet Ottawa up mediation to end Canada s countrywide postal strike continued until Early today with no setup in the 12-Day walkout in sight. Representatives of the strik ing Council of postal unions and the government s Treasury Board spent monday night Clos eted with mediator judge Rene Lippe on the 18th floor of a downtown hotel until . Today. They were to resume discussions at . Over luncheon. There was no announcement of the talks which Are known to Centre on working conditions. Wages have not been Dis cussed since two Days before the strike began at which time the government proposed a six per cent increase Over a 14 month contract which expires sept. 30 this year. The Council has been seeking a 75-cent-an-hour increase for most of its members and 95 cents for its lowest paid ones. The made Post office department available monday the a Canadian National railways Ore car leaves the mine head at the new Hudson Bay min ing and smelting co. Limited Complex at Osborne Lake the latest Northern Manitoba Copper and Zinc property to go into production. Osborne Lake is the third of six mines within a 50 mile radius of Snow Lake to be developed by the company. In has constructed a Branch line from optic Lake to chisel stall and Osborne lakes and from these mines moves a train Load of Ore per Day to flin flon for smelting. The mine at Anderson Lake is expected to go into production later this year followed by Dick Stone and ghost Lake properties. Did Nixon deat Kennedy stabbing charge Laid a 53-year-old woman was charged tuesday with stabbing i her common Law husband in the stomach with a Butcher knife Early in the Day. Marie Fontaine of 143 Edward Street was remanded one Day in Winnipeg magistrate s court on a charge of assault with intent to wound. Her husband William Cowie 50, was reported in guarded condition in Winnipeg general Hospital. Police said there had been an argument Between husband and wife in their Home. Or. Cowie had called the police and was standing outside the House when they arrived. Vote fraud alleged new York special the sunday times the re sults of the american presidential election in 1960 were a fraud according to a Book just published Here. The Book claims that John f. Kennedy should never have been elected president of the United states and that East Europe plays it Cool by Nicholas Carroll Budapest Hungary special the sunday times the air along the Broad Leafy boulevards of Budapest i s filled with strains of pop music apparently coming from no where. Congratulations and jubilation clashes with Why of Why Delilah. The strolling visitor realizes suddenly that All round him Young men and girls Are carrying transistor radios with the volume up full. In shops on the streets All Over the Green acres of the Margaret Island mid Danube playground the transistor is inescapable. The intriguing feature of All this sound is that nobody Ever seems to be listening to a news bulletin although a few Hundred Miles to the Northwest there wages the great czechoslovak soviet conflict of wills which could directly affect the future of All of them. The absence of any sense of crisis of any tension on the other Side of what used to be called the Iron cur Tain is one of the Uncan Niest things about a visit to please see e. Europe Page 20 Nixon leads poll Miami Beach special tons a prematurely released Gallup poll showing Richard Nixon the strongest Republican and a favorite to beat any democratic nominee dealt a Sharp setback monday to Stop Nixon forces at the Republican convention. It s very discouraging very bad said gov. John h. Chaffe of Rhode Island a please see Nixon Page 12 Richard m. Nixon really in essence the argument is that there was substantial evidence of in Texas and Illinois which the democrats won by. Hair breadth margins. With out those states or. Ken Nedy would have lost decisively. The Book Nixon a Politi Cal portrait is written by Earl Mazo a former new York Herald Tribune Politi Cal correspondent and Stephen Hess a White House aide under president Eisenhower and now a fellow of the Institute of politics at Harvard univer sity. The Book also shows that or. Nixon amazingly was Well aware of the fraud but for the Sake of National Unity successfully silenced an inquiry or. Mazo was leading in the Herald Tri Bune. Or. Mazo described the experience to the London sunday times i had writ ten four out of the 12 articles on Texas and Chicago that were going to show up the election frauds. Then Nixon called me Over to his apartment. I assumed he was. Going looking for puppies cute terrier puppies for Salt blk. And White. 837-1032. This want and under dogs cats Birds and tropical fish 21 is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s1 classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. To give me additional in formation or announce that he was going to demand a recount. But right off As we Shook hands Nixon said Earl those Are interesting articles you Are writing but no one steals the presidency of the United please see vote Page 20 stamp thieves Regina up police Mon Day were searching for a stamp collection with a catalogue value of that was stolen Jerom the locked trunk of a car parked at a Regina hotel along with a collection of quarters valued at the collection of British Colon Ial and British North american Stamps was fitted into 10 volumes the property of a Winnipeg Man whom police declined to identify. Flying Saucer study urged Washington special tons scientists willing to believe flying saucers Are More than optical illusions or psycho logical aberrations asked con Gress monday to support re search to find out whether unidentified flying objects ufos come from other worlds. None describe him self As believing that ufos s Are vehicles under the control of intelligent beings on Earth surveillance missions., but or. James e. Mcdonald of the University of Arizona s Institute of atmospheric Phy sics said such an explanation for ufos s is the one i believe most Likely. There is too much consistent evidence that we Are dealing with machine like de or. Mcdonald and five other scientists with equally. Impressive credentials appeared at a Day Long symposium on ufos s conducted by a House science and astronautics subcommittee. The others were somewhat More sceptical than or. Mcdonald but they generally agreed ufos s Are a proper subject for scientific investigation. Their recommendations on How to proceed with such research varied. There was even one suggestion that a sort of ufos patrol be set up so investigators could be flown to interview competent witnesses who see mysterious objects. Or. Carl Sagan of the Cornell University astronomy depart ment said however that the search for extra terrestrial life should emphasize space probes such As. The Mariner and voyager vehicles being sent to Mars and Venus rather than concentrate on flying saucers. He added that if there Are other technical civilizations in the universe they Are Apt to be far More advanced than Earth Lings Are today. It is not beyond question he said that the Earth could be visited civilizations but i by other should de first pay cheques to its striking employees since the tie up began. However a majority of strikers declined to pick up the cheques most of which amounted to. Only a few dollars. No decision by the Cabinet on recalling parliament to end the walkout is expected before wednesday. Prime minister Trudeau has said he Hopes legislation will not be required. Senior postal clerks now Are paid an hour and letter carriers some cheques picked up seventeen letter carriers and postal clerks have crossed the picket line and picked up their pay cheques from the Post office building on Graham Avenue George Toal Winni Peg s postmaster said in an interview at the Post office tuesday. Or. Toal said the men who had collected cheques were Ion vacation. The vacation periods will end Friday. The pay cheques had been collected late monday afternoon and tuesday morning he said. Or. Toal said one Man picked up his Cheque at station of Henderson Highway near Hesp Ler Avenue which made a total of 18. Union officials monday strengthened line in an Effort to persuade the strikers and other Union Mem Bers who were away on vacation at the time the strike was called july 18, from getting to their cheques. Or. Toal said in answer to general Union criticism that the Post office would not deliver cheques outside the Post office premises that he had been instructed to pay any applicants on Post office property. In any Case it is established policy to pay cheques on Post office instructions regarding this particular pay which were Given to or. Toal Canada s Deputy postmaster general july 23, say postmasters should be advised that these cheques should be distributed on Post office George Gatehouse postal Union official at strike head quarters in the Hart building on fort Street refused to comment on the picket line crossing. Still gets around Regina up Bob Doug Las a combustion expert who was fitted with an artificial leg following an amputation above the knee in 1966, travels by Golf cart around the Imperial Oil re finery lot to Check furnaces. He drives about two Miles a Day in the cart which has been fitted please1 see research Page 5 i with tool boxes and a Horn ;